also ahead of the united states elections project. nice of you to join us, michael. thanks for being here. >> good to be talking with you about early voting early in the morning. >> very good. i'd like to know who is the early average absentee voter? what's their description? what's their profile? >> at this stage in the game, it's somewhere who's already made up their mind. playing off of what andy sullivan was talking about, those high information voters. somebody who knows the name of the chief justice of the supreme court. these are people who have already decided who they're going to vote for, they know a lot about the candidates, they're comfortable with casting their ballot. >> can you give a party which is more likely to vote early? >> typically the sorts of high information voters we're talking about look like republicans, however, in 2008 we know that obama won the early vote by a large margin and so far this election it looks as though why we don't have a re-creation of the 2008 early vote electorate, it's still looking like an electorate that's more democ